# Validation Situation :-(

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/validation-situation/168869>\
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**Created:** [November 10, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/validation-situation/168869 "2005-11-10T19:49:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![BadMagick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@BadMagick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BadMagick)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/validation-situation/168869/1 "2005-11-10T19:49:55Z")

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Hey :puzzle:

I’m working on a huge project - HUGE. And I’m having a not so good time with everything at the moment.  
I’m redesigning the Penn State University eLion site - [http://elion.oas.psu.edu](http://elion.oas.psu.edu)

- it’s how students reigster for classes and such - how Bursar office workers check accounts, and lots more. In short - a whole bunch of people use this thing all the time.

I needed to have browser compatibility as much as possible. So I fixed the moz-box-sizing: and everything in the CSS so it works wonderfully in Mozilla and IE6, and some other browsers show up looking fine. You can check it out [here](http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/d/jds411/temp/review/review3/elionReview3_3.html)

However, I don’t have a doctype listed in the html files. Soooooo … that’s kind of an issue. Still, when I do put that doctype in (and I’ve tried a few), there’s an even bigger problem - all my CSS boxes get mangled as in [this](http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/d/jds411/temp/review/review3/elionReview3_1_val.html) example if you use IE. It seems to show perfectly in Firefox.

Any suggestions? Help? A link I can check out for more information?

Thanks in advance.